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NameVessels of tradition
ProductionBarry Brickell; potter; 1991; Coromandel Peninsula
Classificationceramics, works of art, studio ceramics
Materialsceramic
Materials Summaryterracotta, wood firing
Techniquescoiling, firing
Dimensions670mm
Registration Number1996-0033-8
Credit lineCommissioned 1991, in partnership with Expo NZ 1992 Ltd and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand
Overview
'I make these sculptures because they're abstract forms related somewhere to organic shapes. Just nothing more than pure experiments in form. They are exercises in form. Purely form. Very little else.
This is what excites me, making new forms [that] bring together images that have never been seen before. Perhaps they are a kind of anthropomorphic engineering that has grown out of being of the Pacific- open, generous and abundant.'
Barry Brickell
'Treasures of the Underworld' Catalogue
World Expo, Seville, Spain. 12 April - 20 October 1992